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[opensuse-marketing] Rouen: Report on Associations Day 9th September, 2017.
by Jimmy PIERRE 12 Oct '17

12 Oct '17

Report on Associations Day 9th September, 2017. As everything in France starts with food, we started the day with a big breakfast, not heavy but enough to keep going until lunch time J When we arrived on site, it was like a construction site, people with all sort of material. All that looked very promising and we were very excited about the day. Present: Laurence, Marilla, Nathalie, Morgan, Olivier and myself. We had others who came round for coffee and/or were busy on other stands ‘bees, repair café, ecology, hiking, etc. The organizers from the City have computed that the number of visitors was approximately 4500. I can vouch for this because we had ~30 visitors per hour and that for 8 hours. We printed 300 B5 brochures and had only a few left in the evening. We also had our 4G LTE Huawei router and some neighbors asked to free wifi… The memorable visitors were: 1. The first person who barged in was an entrepreneur willing to sell us banners et al. As we operate with 0€ budget, we politely invited him to visit he next door neighbors J 2. Three persons (two men and a lady) over the day, proposed to volunteer for our association. Meaning that the core is growing. That’s pretty good. 3. Two teachers were after DVDs and giveaways. 4. We had a couple of rain showers, but the crowd kept coming. Due to weather conditions, we sort of lost ~50 visitors who just walked pass every stand and not stopping L 5. As usual, we had the ad hoc geeks who acclaimed other Linux distributions but agreed to test openSUSE Leap 42.3, but one geek was sort of seeking Holy water to sprinkle over our stand :D 6. The mayor visited the stands (as each year), we chatted a bit, taboo subjects were budget, resources and bigger meeting rooms J 7. We also visited the other stands and found out that again this year, we were the only IT geeks from Normandie at this annual event in the capital of Normandie. 8. Most visitors promised to come and learn from our monthly insets After packing up, I invited the gang to an Alsatian restaurant. In a nutshell, we had a lot of fun! Here is a short auto Collage: http://www.nui.fr/blog/journee-des-associations-de-rouen/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Getting Started With Linux Magazine
by ddemaio 10 Oct '17

10 Oct '17

Hi all, Members of the openSUSE community have been working with Linux-Magzine.com to publish a special edition of a Getting Started With Linux magazine (cover attached). I am thrilled to inform you that this 100-page magazine featuring openSUSE Leap 42.3 will be available on newsstands throughout the globe over the coming months. The distribution of the magazines are expected to bring more openSUSE users to our community. You might see more asking questions about using openSUSE in the coming months even though the magazine does a great job of explaining the basics. The project has received 3,000 of these magazines to be used for various purposes like distributing at conferences. In addition to distributing some at conferences, we would like to also send a package to people who could distribute them to their local university, college, computer science class or Linux user group. There are 30 magazines in a pack and I can send you a package if you are willing to distribute it to one of the above mentioned target groups. If you are willing to do this, please reply with your full name, mailing address and phone number so I send you a package. I would like to thank the people in our community who helped to make the Getting Started With Linux magazine possible, and thank you to the community members who are helping to bring openSUSE to users throughout the world. Have a lot of fun! Respectfully, Doug

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[opensuse-marketing] Hot from the press at NUI.fr
by Jimmy PIERRE 23 Aug '17

23 Aug '17

Report Software Freedom Days First semester 2017: 25th February, 25th march, 22nd april, 27th may & 24th june. *plus* Fete 1st June We have many many positive stories and only one negative one to tell. Before doing this, I did put my other professional skills to work because the number of visitors never went over ~25 since January and this started to worry me a lot! So in April, we had the Presidential elections in France on 23rd April precisely and we had 12 people only. I therefore took this opportunity to query previous visitors who gave their email addresses the reason of seeing them once, twice or thrice to the most. Using Social Media allows me not to spam visitors. On over 100 emails sent, we had a 50% response: their openSUSE installation just works fine and they were still discovering this and that. Seven had VLC issues (sic) and overcame it by using other music software and others in streaming films etc. One of them was a Ubuntu guy and he said that since I repaired his Ubuntu machine, he had not need to come over for now. It therefore must be seen as a “resistance / political” move when people go for FOSS and this is shared by the “left wing”, labor party, socialists etc. The left was in the process of losing the elections did not help morale! I do not mix politics and being a Geek, but for some people FOSS in France means defiance, anti capitalism et al. The audience for 27th May was the aftermath of final presidential elections of 7Th May but we had 22 people. May is also the month in France with many holidays. The city organizes every year a fete in each municipal premises to pave the way to Summer Holidays and debrief of past year activities, games, shows, food and the 1st June arrived, we were there as every year. Here went leaflets, stickers and other materials. SFD in June was a prelude or epilogue of first semester. I am now going to narrate only the salient stories: 1. Two guys came from the “Repair Café” (they repair everything, toasters, kettles, fridges, computers…) to learn openSUSE and pick some DVDs for installation. This is interesting because our “club” has a good reputation since 2001. They always knew about us but they are pretty busy on Saturdays. 2. We had a few associations asking for old machines. I do need to get an openSUSE 32 bit distribution before making a donation. 3. A good man came some 150 kms away (Amiens), spent the night in Rouen with his wife in an hotel and was very motivated indeed. I did tell him that he could start a chapter there and that I will come over to help him for his first meetings. This happened in May, so I guess that he will start his project end of year or 2018. We will do to Amiens, there is a nice pastry shop there…. 4. Many chance visitors curious and somehow already using some other Linux, 35% willing to try openSUSE and did take a DVD to play with. 5. We had some luck with WSL. This is really for people who do not want using dual boot and/or vmWare et al. Some of them have new machines bought last Christmas and did not want to give their family a shock with another OS. I blogged on WSL since last February starting with this one : http://www.nui.fr/blog/installer-les-services-linux-de-windows-10-wsl-opens… Many geeks are nostalgic of command.com so WSL brings some happiness and lately PowerShell (I need to blog on PowerShell for Linux) appeared…. 6. We had Raspberry sessions, especially remote administration, ssh, nginx, ftp… 7. I have bought most bits and pieces for the photobooth too, just waiting for a lamp tripod to arrive. 8. We held many sessions on Home Networking. We own a 4G router, so we can easily simulate a home network with firewalling etc. When there was the Ransomware blackmailing, we helped people securing email etc. 9. I had two SFD sessions post Saturday event as the boxes were so badly affected that I did it at home on two Sundays. 10. Sadly, I must admit that we had just one negative story. The reason is more a medical one. As a matter of fact, despite spending hours of work getting openSUSE 42.2 running on an HP box, the lady asked to revert to Windows, because she was suffering from a kind of breakdown, burnt out to be more precise…. No more questions asked, and I personally made a Windows 10 Installation with all the patches L 11. openStreetMaps did not come at all this year, busy? 12. Our Greek lady was there each month with a particular issue. 13. Some members came with cakes, biscuits at all the sessions and we got coffee, tea and cold drinks/water going as usual. This does make a difference as spending hours with all these machines up and running, it’s noisy, warm, so some refreshment is a plus. 14. The dates for the second semester 2017 and Second semester 2018 are booked, just need to advertise. 2017 date September 09 Associations day, will use as tremplin for launching openSUSE 42.3 September 16 World SFD - openSUSE 42.3 will be the master piece October 28 November 25 December 23 2018 January 27 February 24 Match 24 April 28 May 26 June 23 Sorry, I did not indulge in reporting earlier, my contract was coming to an end with Thales on June 30th, so I was busy getting things done. We had a lot of fun indeed J Best, -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] QtCon Brazil 2017
by Aslan Ramos 22 Aug '17

22 Aug '17

Hi team, Last weekend openSUSE sponsorship the first QtCon in Latin America, was great opportunity to show to some guys how our openSUSE are. I show the differences about LEAP and Tumbleweed, sharing my experience with openSUSE in daily as Sales Engineer at SUSE. QtCon Brazil 2017 had total of 200 attempts in 2 days, in general most Qt developers and new QT users. Old users shared with me the happiness in see openSUSE in events back in Brazil. :) http://br.qtcon.org Best regards, -- ** *Aslan C. M. Ramos* SUSE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Release Announcement for 42.3
by ddemaio 07 Jul '17

07 Jul '17

Hi all, We have three weeks until the release! I put the release announcement on the wiki at https://en.opensuse.org/Release_announcement_42.3. Please translate the announcement and post the respective links to your wiki pages. Screen shots on the announcement need to be updated to the Leap 42.3 version. I'll add this announcement to news.o.o. on the day of the release. If anyone in the project wants to add screen shots for Leap 42.3, please feel free to start the page from https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:42.3 Thank you to those of you who translated the social media plan. Much appreciated. v/r Doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Screenshots for Leap 42.3
by ddemaio 05 Jul '17

05 Jul '17

Hi all, I started the screenshots page for openSUSE Leap 42.3 at https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:42.3/Screenshots If you want to help out or contribute to this release, please replace the 42.2 screen shots with newer 42.3 screenshots. Thank you for any contributions you can provide. v/r Doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Social Media Plan for 42.3
by ddemaio 30 Jun '17

30 Jun '17

Hi all, I put together some news social media posts for the release of Leap 42.3. If you want to support the project and translate as well as post these to your local social media accounts, please do so. We would highly appreciate it. The posts are written in English at https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Social_media_launch_plan Thank you for your support of the project and thank you for any contributions you make. v/r Doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Publicizing Leap 42.3
by ddemaio 27 Jun '17

27 Jun '17

If anyone is interested in helping to publicize the release of Leap 42.3 through social media or other means, please let me know. It would be great if those involved with the different social media pages could update their info at https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Social_media_contacts v/r Doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Report - 2017/5/28 Ansible and openSUSE workshop 101
by Max 14 Jun '17

14 Jun '17

Hi We plan to have monthly workshop or speech in Taiwan, from Sep 2016 to Sep 2017 We had Ansible and openSUSE workshop 101. Date: 2017/5/28 Topic: Ansible and openSUSE workshop 101 Speaker: Max Huang Place: Mozilla space Taiwan Attendee: 19 Event page: https://opensuse-tw.kktix.cc/events/ansible-opensuse-101 Picture in flickr group: https://www.flickr.com/groups/opensusetaiwan/pool/ Slide: https://goo.gl/MxFdPE Notes: >From openSUSE Taiwan group -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-marketing] Linux Presentation Day 2017
by Jimmy PIERRE 24 May '17

24 May '17

Greetings, I have been pretty busy with work and just realized that NUI is taking part in LPD next Saturday. I had a look at Github and found brochures as old as 2011. Could someine point me to new brochures etc. please? Also if there are slides, I will appreciate same. Best, Jimmy nui.fr -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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